Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Bruce and the Spider., sentence 19
The thread was carried safely to the beam, and fas-tened there.
Who acts: fas · What happens: carry, ten · To what, where: thread, beam
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Bruce and the Spider.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 thread | det |
| 2 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 carried | aux:pass |
| 4 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 4 carried | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 beam | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 beam | det |
| 8 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tened | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tened | cc |
| 11 | fas | fa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tened | nsubj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 fas | punct |
| 13 | tened | ten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 carried | conj |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 tened | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · passive | the thread | the beam | safely property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to beam=Destination | |||
| 2 | ten | participle | fas | there | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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